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CSS introduces WanderB

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The WanderB UAS is intended for covert operations and can operate within a 50-km range. (photo: Cyient Solutions and Systems)

By Neelam Mathews

February 22, 2019

Hyderabad-based Cyient Solutions and Systems (CSS), a 51-49 percent joint venture company between engineering, manufacturing, geospatial, digital, networks company Cyient and Israel’s Blue Bird, launched at Aero India in Bangalore an electric mini WanderB vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) unmanned aerial system (UAS). The UAS covers a longer distance than SpyLite, already delivered to the army in November. The VTOL has an extra battery to ensure extended distance operations for low-intensity conflicts addressed by the paramilitary, Sanjay Sharma, vice president and business head of CSS, told AIN.

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